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The Eyes of the Horizon Blink Footsteps

By: twodead​magpies

Let me stop here. Let me, too, look at nature awhile.
The brilliant blue of the morning sea, of the cloudless sky,
the yellow shore; all lovely,
all bathed in light.

Let me stand here. And let me pretend I see all this
(I really did see it for a minute when I first stopped)
and not my usual day-dreams here too,
my memories, those images of sensual pleasure.
Morning Sea – Constantine P Cavafy, 1915

Rockes, woods, hilles, caves, dales, meads, brookes, answere me,
Infected mindes infect each thing they see.
In Wonted Walks – Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

A list-ode to when the figure in the landscape LOOKS BACK! (and films it)

….a VERY loose collection of psychogeographical films about exploring environment – films that are half documentary, half dream….

Because it is difference that constitutes the poetry of the map and the charm of the territory, the magic of the concept and the charm of the real.
- Jean Baudrillard

On another occasion, when I was walking alone I arrived at the Lizard alone and asked if they could give me a bed. “Is your name Mr Trevelyan?” they answered. “No,” I said, “are you expecting him?” “Yes,” they said, “and his wife is here already.” This surprised me, as I knew it was his wedding day. I found her languishing alone, as he had left her at Truro, saying that he could not face the whole day without a little walk. He arrived about ten o’clock at night, completely exhausted, having accomplished the forty miles in record time, but it seemed to me a somewhat curious beginning for a honeymoon. – Bertrand Russell

Yo paseo con calma, con ojos, con zapatos,
con furia, con olvido,
paso, cruzo oficinas y tiendas de ortopedia….
– Pablo Neruda

And the meaning of Earth completely changes: with the legal model, one is constantly reterritorializing around a point of view, on a domain, according to a set of constant relations, but with the ambulant model, the process of deterritorialization constitutes and extends the territory itself. – Deleuze & Guattari, Treatise on Nomadology


Top Withens, Haworth – geographical font of doomed romance for all of England, and the trees that Sylvia Plath sat in

Urban Exploration – some great fun here…
St Marys Asylum, Stannington

National Psychogeographic youtube playlist

LOADS MORE SUGGESTIONS PLEASE!!!!!

Wow, want to see all of these

and LUX make me cry with their irresistibly unavailable list of Landscape-themed films

…and the films of Ben Rivers – big sad unavailable sigh…though tantalising glimpses here

+ William Raban, Chris Welsby, the moon and the sledgehammer, nick collins’ across the valley, Jonathan Meades ♥ on tv…those brits…


Tacita Dean’s Banewl

Blogs

Some Landscapes
Strange Maps
Landscape and Urbanism


Piet Mondrian, Trees in Blossom, 1912

 

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Flying Dutchman

14Jan12

Many thanks for this, what a fantastic resource.

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Răpciune

28May11

do you know Nadja's Deterritorialization? Awesome song, though it deals more with lunar topography than with earthly geographical delights. thank you for the list, it`s so awesome!

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31Mar11

I love love love this list!!

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23Feb11

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